Oh Baby
Delivery on track as a premature Indian baby enters the world through the toilet of a moving train. Found alive on the railbed two hours later, apparently unhurt. Telegraph:
The child’s mother, an Indian woman called Bhuri, was travelling on an overnight train near Ahmadabad, in the state of Gujarat in west India when she suddenly and unexpectedly gave birth.
The as-yet-unnamed child was found two hours later, cold but apparently unhurt.
According to her brother-in-law Arjun Kumar, she went to the toilet shortly before midnight and unexpectedly gave birth, eight to ten weeks short of term.
Toilets on Indian trains are usually simple holes through to the tracks, and the baby – who weighs barely 3lb – was small enough to slip straight through.
“She fell unconscious and the baby fell through the toilet,” said Mr Kumar. “Two stations later, we knocked at the door.
If you’ve been on a third-world train, you’ll know waste is directly returned to the environment without being contaminated with chemicals or subjected to expensive treatment processes, and that you get to watch the gravel fly paste as you pee.
Topics: india
Posted by Jules Crittenden at 8:03 pm Comments (3) on Thursday, February 28, 2008
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February 28th, 2008 at 10:33 pm
Considering I’ve seen pictures of Indian trains with a lot of people riding on the roof, you wouldn’t want to sit near an open window either.
February 29th, 2008 at 12:44 am
I recall the same set up on the Northwest Line in Chicago, except you had to “flush” in order to see the gravel. I resolved never to walk near the tracks.
February 29th, 2008 at 4:01 am
Remarkable.